Synonym: bad, high-risk, inquisitive, notional, questioning, risky, wondering. Similar words: speculation, speculate, speculator, peculate, cumulative, manipulative, accumulative, intensive cultivation. Meaning: ['spekjəleɪtɪv /-kjʊlə-] adj. 1. not financially safe or secure 2. not based on fact or investigation 3. showing curiosity.
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61. Baillie etal. reject the speculative efficiency hypothesis in all cases.
62. It is no longer enough simply to say that the hypothesis is too speculative and does not deserve to be tested.
63. It was also thought that jobbers would stabilise prices through their short-term speculative activities.
64. Personal opinion or preferences and speculative imaginings have no place in science.
65. Both the first proposal and the final plan brought speculative attacks on the dollar.
66. Tracing the course of the profits squeeze is inevitably rather complicated and speculative because the various influences can not be quantified.
67. They tend to avoid US-style controls for damping sudden speculative movements by closing down a market for a particular period.
68. Hong Kong swirled with news of his whereabouts, all of it entirely speculative.
69. According to Keynesians, the speculative demand for money is highly responsive to changes in interest rates.
70. This danger, and with it speculative pressures, mounts each time doubts arise that the Maastricht treaty will be ratified.
71. Some speculative future applications of explosive materials in the space programme conclude the scientific presentations.
72. Given the very contemporary nature of this chapter it is, inevitably, more speculative than other sections of the book.
73. In the meantime, therefore, large speculative balances of money will be held.
74. Almost any palaeontological reconstruction or interpretation is speculative, but that does not mean that no speculation is either rewarding or illuminating.
75. All discussions of extraterrestrial civilizations therefore have to be purely speculative.
76. Lord Mackay has treated claims that eligibility has substantially fallen as speculative.
77. The implicit tax would thus rise and fall precisely as needed to counter speculative pressures.
78. The editorial matter can be biased to presenting a favourable buying climate for speculative stocks.
79. Thus speculative balances will be held in anticipation of the purchase of non-monetary assets at some future date.
80. He became a writer after he failed as an entrepreneur, and kept being tempted back into speculative schemes.
81. Large volumes of speculative investments leading to losses for the customer might be thought to imply churning.
82. My immediate concern is that the tone of your coverage was very negative, speculative, and highly opinionated.
83. While there is undoubtedly a demand for more golf courses, it needs to be underlined that many applications are purely speculative.
84. Enclosure might result in every acre being grabbed by private owners, who would sell for speculative building.
85. It has been suggested that such a speculative bubble may have been responsible for the rapid rise in equity prices in 1987.
86. Homes became a speculative investment which bubble and burst, leaving thousands without homes or unable to move home.
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87. Thus a practicing and craft sociologist is either empirically grounding sociological ideas or constructing them in some speculative process.
88. Real estate tax: containment or containment speculative investment?
89. A still speculative method may supplant that approach, however.
90. He made a speculative investment in the stock market.
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